Informatsionno-Tekhnicheskiy bulleten'. Upravlenie stroitel'stvom Dvortsa Sovetov. No. 9, 11-12, 4. [Information and Technical Bulletin. The Construction Management of the Palace of the Soviets. No. 9, 11-12, 4.].

[Moskva], Otdel tekhnicheskoy propagandy, 1940-1941.
Limited to 250 (No. 9) and 500 (No. 11-12 and 4) copies.
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On the order of Joseph Stalin, the one of the most famous temples of Moscow, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, was destroyed in December 1931. The demolition was supposed to make way for a colossal Palace of the Soviets. This building, the biggest and tallest in the world, would have become the symbol of the victory of socialism, the symbol of a new country. On the one hand, it was a new temple to the revolution and Vladimir Lenin, new Soviet holy man, and on the other – the symbol of Soviet might and determination to overtake America. The project for the Palace of Soviets was largely changed during the four stages of the competition (1931-33) and after. The architectural contest was won by Boris Iofan and later revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreykh into a skyscraper. Construction started in 1937 and was supposed to be finished in 1942. Steel frame installation was in progress when the German invasion started. These issues were prepared by the Construction Management of the Palace of the Soviets and were distributed among professionals. The bulletins devoted to the progress of construction works. For example, they contain information about winter construction, mining of granite and marble, escalators and elevators planning, installation of the column shoes, land surveying equipment, canalization system, facade lighting, etc. During the WWII, when the Donbass, the heart of the Soviet coal industry, was occupied by the Nazis, part of the steel skeleton of the palace was cut out for use in fortifications and bridges. Construction was never resumed. In 1958, the foundations of the Palace were converted into the Moskva Pool, the world's largest open-air swimming pool. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior was rebuilt in 1995–2000. However almost all these construction-technology innovations were used into the construction of the Soviet skyscrapers. The Construction Management of the Palace of the Soviets headed two important projects: the Building of Moscow State University (the tallest building in Europe in 1953–1990) and the Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We have three issues of fourteen published.

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